Plus Advent Calendar Door #7: Singing banana

Submitted by mf344 on December 7, 2012

Mathematics and silliness is the speciality of James Grime, mathematician, juggler and comedy nerd (though not necessarily in that order). From zombie maths to post-it note dodecahedra: it's all on his YouTube channel. Here's one of his puzzles for a taster:

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